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Pixelmator is a powerful, full-featured, layer-based image editor that lets you touch up and enhance images, sketch, ​and paint, as well as create advanced image compositions on iPad and iPhone alike.

Pixelmator has everything you need — whether you’re a mobile photographer, mobile painter, or mobile graphic designer — all in one easy-to-use app.

And it works seamlessly with Mac as well, so you can start creating on iPhone or iPad and continue right where you left off on your Mac.

Designed exclusively for iOS, Pixelmator takes full advantage of the latest iOS 11 features and technologies, giving you innovative, fast, and powerful tools.

Advanced Photo Editing• Get started with dozens of beautifully designed templates• Instantly improve your photos with single-tap color correction presets• Take full control over the tonal range of your image with levels and curves• Easily remove color cast and set the right white balance• Wipe away image imperfections, skin blemishes, and unwanted objects with the Repair tool• Duplicate areas of your image with the easy-to-use Clone tool• Pinch, bump, twirl, or warp areas of an image with powerful, Metal-based Distort tools• Blur, sharpen, lighten, or darken areas of an image• Choose from dozens of breathtaking effects to subtly improve or completely change the look of an image• Open and edit images of up to 100 megapixels

Full-Featured Painting App• Paint stunning images right on your iPhone and iPad• Choose from more than 100 artist-designed brushes and numerous painting techniques• Paint with near-natural wetness effect of watercolor and crayon brushes• Create stunning pixel art images with the custom-designed Pixel brush• Paint with incredible detail thanks to the double texture brush technology• Smudge colors of an image for smooth color blends• Vary the speed of your stroke to change brush thickness of some of the brushes• Easily select and fine-tune colors with a full-featured Color Picker• Instantly choose colors right from your image with the Eyedropper• Use layers to isolate and blend elements of your painting• Paint more naturally than ever with the Apple Pencil on your iPad Pro, featuring palm rejection, pressure, tilt, and acceleration sensitivity• Enjoy perfectly seamless painting thanks to the OpenGL ES-based Pixelmator Paint Engine

Graphic Design • Combine words, shapes, and images to create breathtaking artwork right on your iPhone• Apply non-destructive layer styles like shadows, outlines, gradient fills, and more• Insert, group, merge, and blend layers of an image• Add text and make it look beautiful with a full set of text-styling settings• Easily add, combine, and customize shapes• Blend layers, shapes, and text using any of the 32 blending modes• Use precise selection tools to edit areas of an image• Crop, arrange, and rotate objects and layers with pixel-perfect precision• Easily remove image background or cut and paste objects from one image to another

Compatibility• Open, edit, and save Photoshop images with layers• Open and save images using PSD, JPEG, PNG, and many other popular formats• Import HEIF images• Save your images directly to your Photos app• Store and access images on iCloud Drive

iCloud and Sharing• Create, edit, and keep all your images up to date on all your devices thanks to the iCloud support• Share your artwork with friends and family via email• Instantly publish your images to social platforms like Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook

Designed for iOS 11Pixelmator is meticulously thought through and created from the ground up for iOS 11. Designed to take full advantage of powerful iOS features and technologies and engineered to leverage the full power of 64-bit architecture, ARC, Grand Central Dispatch, OpenGL ES, Metal, Core Image, and Core Animation, Pixelmator delivers state-of-the-art performance and real-time responsiveness.

What's New

Version History

2.4.1

Nov 20, 2017

This update includes full support for iPhone X as well as a number of stability fixes and performance improvements.

2.4

Oct 10, 2017

Pixelmator for iOS 2.4 Cobalt is now fully compatible with iOS 11, adds Drag and Drop so you can move images and graphics between Pixelmator for iPad and other apps more easily than ever, includes support for importing HEIF images, and more.

• Pixelmator for iOS is now fully compatible with iOS 11.• Drag and Drop support lets you move images and graphics between Pixelmator for iPad and other apps more easily than ever.• Support for importing HEIF images.• Pixelmator would quit unexpectedly when zooming in after starting a selection. Fixed.• The composition would sometimes disappear when adding or removing layers. Fixed.• Certain buttons in the Color and Format popovers would occasionally not respond to touches. Fixed.• Pixelmator would sometimes stop responding after closing an image and immediately opening it again. Fixed.

2.3.1

Jul 25, 2017

• The Brushes, Retouch, Distort, and Selection tool choosers were too translucent. They're now just as translucent as they need to be.• The Refine Selection overlay was not disappearing after loading a new image. Fixed.

2.3

Jul 19, 2016

Pixelmator 2.3 for iOS brings an incredible Quick Selection Tool, a powerful and precise Magnetic Selection Tool, features many small, but awesome improvements to the selection experience on iOS, and more.

New:• The advanced Quick Selection Tool lets you make incredibly accurate selections.• The smart Magnetic Selection Tool snaps precisely to the objects you trace.• Many small, but awesome changes improve the selection experience on iOS.

Selection improvements:• When making selections, you can now tap Invert to invert your selection.• The outline of selections made with the Color Selection Tool is more precise thanks to a content-aware smoothing algorithm.• The all-new marching ants design improves performance and has ants that actually march around your selections.• The Color Selection Tool is now faster (especially on older devices).• Added a Create New selection mode, which is now the default.• A live preview of your final selection is now shown when using the Add or Subtract selection modes.• You can now transform selections in the Arrange pane.• Selections now snap to layers and the canvas, just like layers do (but you can turn this off by turning off Guides).• Selections made with the Free Selection, Rectangle Selection, and Ellipse Selection tools now always snap to pixels, meaning there won’t be any unwanted, half-transparent pixels at the edges of a selection when you copy, delete, or transform it. • The selection paths of the Free Selection Tool are now made up of twice as many points, which makes them smoother.• When you open up Select with an already selected area, the selection tool that you were using previously will automatically become active.• When moving a selected area, dragging inside the selection will move it, and dragging outside the selection will now pan the image.• The selection outline that is added as you select with the Free Selection Tool now has a subtle animation.• When making selections with the Quick Selection or Color Selection tools, the selection preview now fades into the marching ants.• Tapping Undo after transforming a selected area sometimes used to make that area flicker. Fixed.• When using the Free Selection Tool, quickly tapping could sometimes make really small selections instead of adding points. Fixed.

Improvements and bug fixes:• Use a two finger double tap to zoom in or zoom to fit.• The 9:16 aspect ratio is now in the list of ratios in Crop.• The request to let Pixelmator access your Photos library wouldn’t appear if you tried to save to Photos before having opened an image from Photos – it does now.• If you use Copy to Photos to save a new image to your Photos library, you’ll now be able to use Save to Photos to save over that new image.• If you drag a layer that is not selected (the transform handles aren't visible) and it does not fit in the screen, the layer will not be moved. To move it – first, tap to select it.• When you hold two fingers to rotate a layer but one or both fingers are outside the currently selected layer, other layers in your image will not be selected – first tap to select the layer you want to rotate, then hold two fingers inside it to start rotating.• Zoom animations are a little more smooth as they now have subtle ease-out transitions.

Apple Pencil improvements and bug fixes:• When using Apple Pencil, the brush size of the Quick Selection Tool is pressure-sensitive.• Selections made using Apple Pencil and the Free Selection Tool are now more accurate.• The transform handle area is now smaller, giving you more precision.

Pixelmator for iPhone improvements:• The Select and Distort tool choosers are now laid out more symmetrically.• The selection mode in the Select tool chooser is highlighted more clearly.• Tapping to choose a selection mode will now close the Select tool chooser.

Pixelmator 2.3 for iOS has a bunch of other great improvements and fixes – read the full release notes at pixelmator.com/ios/updates

2.2.1

• 30 more brushes now support the Tilt feature of the Apple Pencil. • Distort tools work faster than before when editing large images.• Applying multiple effects to large images in the Pixelmator Photos Extension works smoothly.• Improved stability when opening images. • The Pixelmator icon looks more crisp on the home screen of the iPad Pro. • Fixed an issue where, after changing either text size or rotation, you had to close and reopen the text format popover to change the other.• Fixed an issue on 3D Touch devices where the app would quit unexpectedly when using Peek and Pop in an empty Pixelmator Gallery.

Other recent improvements:• Full iPad Pro support.• Apple Pencil and palm-rejection support on iPad Pro.• 3D Touch support on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.• A new Pixel brush, to create pixel art.

2.2

Dec 10, 2015

Pixelmator 2.2 for iOS works great on the iPad Pro, fully supports the new Apple Pencil, adds 3D Touch support, and more.

Pixelmator now works great on the new iPad Pro• Create and edit images with Pixelmator on the iPad Pro.• Sketch and paint even more naturally with full Apple Pencil and palm-rejection support, as well as specially tailored brushes, featuring pressure, tilt, and acceleration sensitivity.• Open and edit images up to 100 megapixels.

Pixelmator adds 3D Touch support on iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus• Paint with 3D Touch-sensitivity.• Press firmly on the Pixelmator icon on the home screen to instantly open your Pixelmator gallery, create a new image, or open an image from Photos.• Press firmly on an image in your Pixelmator gallery to quickly preview it, duplicate it, share it, copy it to Photos, or to delete it.

More great improvements and fixes• A collection of artist-designed Basic brushes, including the new Pixel brush.• Enhanced crop and straighten performance.• Auto-straighten to straighten images with a single tap.• Cropping-lines now snap to objects in your composition.• Ability to increase font size up to 1000 pixels.• Pixelmator is no longer the default app for opening PDF documents from iCloud Drive.• Text with a shadow is now exported correctly.• Performance improvements and bug fixes.

2.1

Sep 23, 2015

Pixelmator for iOS 2.1 update includes support for iOS 9, multitasking on iPad via Split View and Slide Over, 8K resolution support, Open in Place and Save to Photos features, and more.

• Pixelmator now works great on the new iOS 9.• Multitasking on iPad with Split View and Slide Over lets you use Pixelmator for iPad and any other app at the same time.• Open and edit images in stunning 8K resolution.• Open in Place feature lets you open Pixelmator images from anywhere you want and save the changes you make in the exact same place.• Save to Photos lets you open an image from Photos and save the changes you make onto the same image without creating a copy.• Copy Image lets you quickly copy the entire image composition to Clipboard.• San Francisco is now the new user interface font.

2.0.2

Jul 14, 2015

We’ve redefined the performance of the Repair tool, added Dynamic Touch to all Retouch tools, improved the Photo Editing extension, and more.

• The Repair tool is now up to 5 times faster and even more precise.• Dynamic Touch lets you adjust the stroke size of all Retouch tools by simply using the tip of your finger to create thin strokes and a larger surface area of your finger for thicker lines. • Lots of improvements to the Photo Editing extension and more.

Improvements and bug fixes

• The Blur effect lets you apply more blur to your images.• We’ve enhanced the look of the Pinch and Bump effects, so now they look even better.• The Effects preview thumbnails of very wide images were too wide. Fixed.• Now you can Cancel or Apply an effect with the settings popover open.• The Clone tool now starts cloning grouped layers when and where you ask it to.• The Retouch tools now work just as they should on layers with Lock Alpha on.• The rhombus shape looks much more crisp.• The Font Size setting had no effect on a few fonts. Fixed.• The values of the Color Balance settings used to stay the same after applying Undo. Fixed.• Previously, after canceling color adjustments for text, shape or grouped layers, you were still able to Undo the adjustments that you never made. Fixed.• Removed Undo Image Size after creating a new Custom Image.• The Replace Photo popover is now displayed properly when customizing a template at a high zoom level.• We’ve made it easier to zoom the canvas into Fit and Full-Screen views.• Your canvas now also fits the screen nicely after rotating the device with the Tools popover open.• Browsing the Image Gallery is easier, when you can start swiping from the Name or Date labels, too.• Images copied from Messages and other text-based apps are now pasted properly.• Shapes with gradients created with Pixelmator for iOS look just the same on Pixelmator for Mac.• Now you can see Pixelmator document thumbnails in the iCloud Drive Document Picker.• Once in a while, the Photo Editing extension used to stop responding while saving changes. We found the reason and fixed it.• The Photo Editing extension used to save the changes you made, even if you made no changes. Fixed.• The app used to quit unexpectedly when you tried to enter Effects while editing a very wide image. Not anymore.• We’ve improved the stability of the app when opening PSD documents with custom fonts.• The Low Disk Space alert is now displayed only when you launch the app.• Once in a while, the app used to stop responding after running in the background. Not anymore.• The app would sometimes stop responding when opening an image from another app or via Handoff. We fixed this.

Improvements and fixes to Pixelmator for iPad:• We’ve updated to the latest Adonit stylus SDK for a better painting experience.• Replaced the Brush Tool and Eraser Tool stylus shortcut options with one Toggle Eraser option.• Fixed an issue with Stylus Shortcuts, which sometimes used to perform two actions at the same time.• First Writing Style was available but non-selectable. Fixed.

Other performance and stability improvements, minor bug fixes.

What’s more, now you can learn about Pixelmator for iOS from the new, complete User Manual, and from a collection of inspiring video tutorials. Visit our website to learn more.

2.0.1

May 27, 2015

Pixelmator is now available for iPhone as a universal app.

New features

• Pixelmator is now available for iPhone.• Metal-powered Distort tools allow you to pinch, bump, twirl, and warp areas of your images.• The Clone tool lets you duplicate areas of your image.• The new Repair Selection feature instantly repairs selected areas.

Other improvements and bug fixes

• There are now more pre-designed shapes and text styles for you to choose from.• We’ve added additional layer templates, too.• The new Hue adjustment setting lets you customize the look of Light Leak and Bokeh effects.• The enhanced Repair tool interface now lets you cancel repairing while in process, see the percent progress of the repair, and hide the layers palette while still repairing.• You can now zoom into your image more than 1000 percent while painting, if you like.• Working with text and shape layers is now much faster.• Fonts are now sorted just as they should be — alphabetically.• You can now see the color value while adjusting the white balance with the Eyedropper. • Now you can share more than one image per session via AirDrop.• Previously, a newly added layer would appear at the top of the layers palette. Now, it is placed above the selected layer.• Full Screen mode now hides the bottom bar of the interface.• Previously, the popover menus were hidden after rotating the device. We fixed that.• We’ve updated to the latest stylus SDKs for a better painting experience.• The app used to quit unexpectedly when it was put to sleep while repairing. Not anymore.• We’ve also enhanced the overall performance of the app so you can enjoy a much more seamless image-editing process.

If you think Pixelmator is awesome, please take the time to write a nice review. It would make us feel good about our work and help others find the app that they might be looking for. Thanks a lot!

2.0

May 26, 2015

Pixelmator is now available for iPhone as a universal app (which means it is free for you, because you already own Pixelmator for iPad).

New features

• Pixelmator is now available for iPhone.• Metal-powered Distort tools allow you to pinch, bump, twirl, and warp areas of your images.• The Clone tool lets you duplicate areas of your image.• The new Repair Selection feature instantly repairs selected areas.

Other improvements and bug fixes

• There are now more pre-designed shapes and text styles for you to choose from.• We’ve added additional layer templates, too.• The new Hue adjustment setting lets you customize the look of Light Leak and Bokeh effects.• The enhanced Repair tool interface now lets you cancel repairing while in process, see the percent progress of the repair, and hide the layers palette while still repairing.• You can now zoom into your image more than 1000 percent while painting, if you like.• Working with text and shape layers is now much faster.• Fonts are now sorted just as they should be — alphabetically.• You can now see the color value while adjusting the white balance with the Eyedropper. • Now you can share more than one image per session via AirDrop.• Previously, a newly added layer would appear at the top of the layers palette. Now, it is placed above the selected layer.• Full Screen mode now hides the bottom bar of the interface.• Previously, the popover menus were hidden after rotating the device. We fixed that.• We’ve updated to the latest stylus SDKs for a better painting experience.• The app used to quit unexpectedly when it was put to sleep while repairing. Not anymore.• We’ve also enhanced the overall performance of the app so you can enjoy a much more seamless image-editing process.

If you think Pixelmator is awesome, please take the time to write a nice review. It would make us feel good about our work and help others find the app that they might be looking for. Thanks a lot!

1.1

Mar 19, 2015

• Unique watercolor painting technology allows creating real-life-looking watercolor paintings• 12 new beautiful artist-designed watercolor brushes• The new Color Picker now features the history of your previously used colors• Use the new Color Grid in the new Color Picker to pick colors even more precisely• Optimized Painting Engine gives you up to 2 times faster painting performance• Now you can open 16-bit RGB, CMYK and Grayscale Photoshop image previews, as well as Photoshop images containing layer masks• Insert an image as a new layer right from your iCloud Drive• Use the Lock Alpha feature to paint on the non-transparent parts of a layer• Preview of your brush while adjusting its settings• Open and edit RAW image previews• Full support for Adonit Jot Script, Jot Touch 4, Jot Touch with Pixelpoint styluses• Enhanced stylus pressure sensitivity with all styluses

Attention to Detail• Scale images without constraining proportions: Tools > Format > Arrange > Constrain Proportions• Invert image colors with the new Invert color adjustment preset• Open PDF files from your email or any other app• See precise color values while selecting colors with the Eyedropper• Adjust the settings of an effect more accurately with enhanced slider sensitivity • Zoom into your image while still tweaking the effect’s settings• Rotate text more accurately with the new text rotation slider: Tools > Format > Arrange• Toggle between full-screen mode more easily• Optimized memory use allows to undo much faster while painting• Cleaner Eyedropper Interface• Refreshed look of the Gradient Picker• Auto Save improvements• Updated Wacom Stylus SDK for even more precise painting

If you think Pixelmator is awesome, please leave us a nice review. It would make us feel great about our work and help others find the app they might be looking for. Thanks a lot!

1.0.2

Dec 16, 2014

• We’ve made it way easier to rotate objects on canvas• You can rotate even more precisely with the new Rotate slider in Format > Arrange• A new Opacity slider to adjust brush tip opacity• A new Brush Size slider to adjust the Retouch tool tip size• Remastered brushes altogether to work better with styluses

A slew of fixes to preserve EXIF metadata:• Image metadata is preserved when using Pixelmator Photo Editing Extension• Image metadata is preserved when opening and exporting images to Photo Library• Image metadata is preserved if image is opened from iCloud Drive

A bunch of fixes to improve Photo Editing Extension:• Remastered Blur effect to work better• Minimized extension app executable file size to lower memory footprint• Removed all unnecessary resources so that extension package is even smaller

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1.0.1

Oct 30, 2014

• The Repair tool is now available on iPad 2, iPad 3, and iPad mini• Updated brush previews so you can get a better idea of the stroke shape• Improved brush parameters so the strokes are even nicer• Improved localizations

We can’t wait to see what you create! Tweet your work to @pixelmator and we’ll share it with your fellow creators.

If you think Pixelmator is awesome, please leave us a nice review. It’d make us feel great about our work, and it’ll help others find the app they might be looking for. Thanks!

1.0

Oct 23, 2014

Nov 20, 2017

Version 2.4.1

This update includes full support for iPhone X as well as a number of stability fixes and performance improvements.

Customer Reviews

3.9 out of 5

219 Ratings

219 Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Pixelmator sets a new standard for photo editing on iPhone and iPad with a suite of staggeringly powerful tools. Combining gorgeous templates, intuitive touch-screen controls, and completely customizable effects, this full-featured editor is in a class all its own. Plus, with seamless syncing using iCloud Drive, it doesn’t matter where the project was started—you can keep editing on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

Editors’ Choice

Pixelmator sets a new standard for photo editing on iPhone and iPad with a suite of staggeringly powerful tools. Combining gorgeous templates, intuitive touch-screen controls, and completely customizable effects, this full-featured editor is in a class all its own. Plus, with seamless syncing using iCloud Drive, it doesn’t matter where the project was started—you can keep editing on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

Almost Great

Jan 17, 2018

cyclopsed

Fantastic for the price. Needs a few things to simplify the work flow. Most importantly it needs a way to check the last edit against the original without using undo. Sounds minor. It’s not! Easy to get confused and clearly begins to slow the iPad down after a lengthy series of rapid edits and reviews. It is also nearly impossible to keep similar but slightly different photos straight without opening and closing images fingers crossed. Less importantly, but just slightly is that the controls can be both over sensitive causing unintended UI behaviors that have occasionally destroyed an hour's work in half a second, or just causes general frustration. I'm looking at you, Jack-in-the-box-now-you-see-me-now-you-don’t Layers Pane; and your lousy buddy: Move Image Whether-you-want-to-or-Not. The worst is when the Layers pane triggers and you try to close it, it usually applies the tool you were in the middle of using to the edge of the canvas. Sigh!In the larger amazingness of what this app allows you to do with you images these are often just minor issues that occasionally get in the way. Other days they make me take months long I Just Want to See Other Apps Breaks... But I always return...

Almost Great

Jan 17, 2018

cyclopsed

Fantastic for the price. Needs a few things to simplify the work flow. Most importantly it needs a way to check the last edit against the original without using undo. Sounds minor. It’s not! Easy to get confused and clearly begins to slow the iPad down after a lengthy series of rapid edits and reviews. It is also nearly impossible to keep similar but slightly different photos straight without opening and closing images fingers crossed. Less importantly, but just slightly is that the controls can be both over sensitive causing unintended UI behaviors that have occasionally destroyed an hour's work in half a second, or just causes general frustration. I'm looking at you, Jack-in-the-box-now-you-see-me-now-you-don’t Layers Pane; and your lousy buddy: Move Image Whether-you-want-to-or-Not. The worst is when the Layers pane triggers and you try to close it, it usually applies the tool you were in the middle of using to the edge of the canvas. Sigh!In the larger amazingness of what this app allows you to do with you images these are often just minor issues that occasionally get in the way. Other days they make me take months long I Just Want to See Other Apps Breaks... But I always return...

Perfect for Pixel Art - Except One Issue

Oct 26, 2017

cord_RED

I love Pixelmator - very smooth, simple, and easy to use, with lots of diverse tools. I use it mainly for pixel art, because simply enough, there aren’t and good tools to make pixel art or animations out there. This one has huge potential.

One issue, however - when making pixel art, somewhere in the process of closing the file and reopening it, or somewhere in there, it becomes ever so slightly distorted in color. Pixels near the edge of other colored pixels will blend in color - and thus it’s impossible to maintain image quality. I’ve also noticed this in my non-pixellated work - a tiny loss in quality as I work over a period of days. I’ve tried everything to experiment and see if it was me causing the problem - but can’t seem to solve it (using iPhone 6 plus). Unfortunately, I can’t rely on the app to export when using it for game art or anything like that. However, if this issue were to be solved, it would easily be five stars, and the best art application out there.

Perfect for Pixel Art - Except One Issue

Oct 26, 2017

cord_RED

I love Pixelmator - very smooth, simple, and easy to use, with lots of diverse tools. I use it mainly for pixel art, because simply enough, there aren’t and good tools to make pixel art or animations out there. This one has huge potential.

One issue, however - when making pixel art, somewhere in the process of closing the file and reopening it, or somewhere in there, it becomes ever so slightly distorted in color. Pixels near the edge of other colored pixels will blend in color - and thus it’s impossible to maintain image quality. I’ve also noticed this in my non-pixellated work - a tiny loss in quality as I work over a period of days. I’ve tried everything to experiment and see if it was me causing the problem - but can’t seem to solve it (using iPhone 6 plus). Unfortunately, I can’t rely on the app to export when using it for game art or anything like that. However, if this issue were to be solved, it would easily be five stars, and the best art application out there.